来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第17集 第17集》

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  roughly speaking,
  大致说来
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  in the next generation,
  下一代的潜在数量
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  of which obviously a miniscule fraction are going to be born.
  而其中显然只有很少部分会真正出生
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  There's--if you're going to feel sorry for Larry,
  也就是说 如果你为拉里难过
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  you've got to feel sorry for every merely possible person.
  你就要为每一个潜在的人类难过
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  Every person who could have been born that never gets born.
  每一个可能出生却没有出生的人
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  And there's 1.5 million billion billion billion such people,
  一共有十五亿亿亿亿这么多
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  such possible people.
  潜在的人类
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  And of course, the truth of the matter is,
  当然 实际上
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  we barely scratched the surface here.
  我们计算的只是冰山一角
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  Because now think of all those people and think about
  因为想想这些人
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  all the possible children they could have.
  想想他们可能创造的人类